Nujoma himself, Namibia’s ‘Father Founder’ and the first president, dies at the age of 95 | News of the obituary

Nuyoma himself, a revolutionary leader who led Namibi to the independence of Apartheid South Africa in 1990 and performed the post of first president for 15 years, died at 95.

Increed as “Openter” Namibija, Nujoma passed away on Saturday night after a three -week hospitalization in the capital, Windhoek, according to the Namibian Presidency.

“The foundations of the Republic of Namibi have shaken up,” the Facebook post, announcing his death. There will be a period of “national grief,” he added.

And a revolutionary leader, Dr. Sam Shafiishun Nujoma. ” @Drnangolobumba President Nujoma crossed at the age of 95 on February 8 at 11pm at Windhoek in Namibia. Read a complete statement: https://t.co/aw4vpzp4y4

– the Namibian Presidency 9 February 2025

Nuyoma is appreciated in his homeland as a charismatic character of a father who directed his country into democracy and stability after a long Colonial rule of Germany and the bitter war of independence from South Africa.

He was the last in the generation of African leaders to lead their countries from the rules of the colonial or white minority, which included South Africa Nelson Mandela, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabve, Kenneth Kaunda and Mozambik Machel in Zambia.

Nujoma is headed by the National Organization of Southwestern Africa (Swapo), which has been fighting for the release since its founding in 1960.

While Swapo remained in power of independence, Nujom finally stopped in 2007 at the age of 78, two years after he stopped from the Presidency.

Many Namibians are due to nuyoma leadership for the process of national healing and reconciliation after the deep divisions caused by the war of independence and policy of South Africa on the division of the country to the ethnically established regional government.

Even his political opponents praised Nujom – to whom Marxist Marxist – for the establishment of a democratic constitution and the involvement of white businessmen and politicians in the Government after independence. He was also known for his fierce anti -inflammatory rhetoric and fences against homosexuality, which he called “foreign and corrupt ideology” and helps diseases “biological weapon created man.”

But while he was able to establish democratic institutions and move forward with reconciliation, his autocratic tendencies threw a shadow over his legacy, said Ndumba Kamwanyah, a lecturer at the University of Namibia and the political analyst.

“Although Nuyoma Presidency was based on establishing independence and management of Namibia, it was not without flaws,” Kamwanyah said.

‘Maximum lead’

Nuyoma born to poor farmers from the tribe of Dambo in a tiny village in northwestern Namibia, Nujoma found the awakening of his political consciousness to his teenage years when he moved to the port city of Walvis Bay.

Arriving at the age of 17, he lived with his aunt in the Black City and was referred to the adult conversations about the troubles of blacks under the rule of white minoria.

The oldest of 10 children, the first job of Nujoma was as a railway cleaner near Windhoek in 1949, while going to night school, according to an autobiography published in 2001. There he met the head of the Hosero Hoseo tribe, who was lobbied to end the reign of Apartheid in Namibia, then known as Southwestern Africa.

The corner became his mentor, by the pasting young nujom because he became politically active among the black workers in Windhoek, who resisted the Government of Vladin, ordered to move to Novi Grad in the late 1950s.

At the request of the corner, Nujoma began her life in exile in 1960, first in Bocvana, leaving her wife and four children behind. In the same year, he was elected President of the SWAPO and later transferred from capital to capital in search of support and launch of a low level of the 1966 armed struggle.

More than a decade of pressure from nujom and others have passed before the resolution of the United Nations Security Council in 1978 proposed a truce and elections. Another decade has passed to sign a dedication agreement and elections in late 1989.

Swapo won the majority in that election, and Nujoma took over the post in March 1990.

After retirement from the Presidency, he enrolled in a master’s degree in geology, believing that the Mount Namibi contain unused mineral wealth.

“Nujoma gave the maximum leadership to our nation and did not save the effort to motivate every Namiban to build a country that would be high and proud of the nation in the world,” the Presidency said.